Finding Stardust

The maid brought them lots of snacks and drinks to accompany their study.

"Alright ... I want to know what your true abilities are so that I can determine how to teach you properly. I have prepared Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology tests for you."

Emma took out some papers from her bag and handed them to Haoran. The young man examined the questions on the test papers attentively then nodded.

"Very good, when did you make these?" asked the young man, raising his face. "Have you given private tuition before?"

Emma shrugged. "Since moving here, I have planned to do some tutoring. I just didn"t expect to find students so soon. Thank you for your help."

"You"re welcome. Alright ... how much time will you give me to do each test?" Haoran asked.

"Fifteen minutes for each subject. I"ll check and give you my a.s.sessment in one hour."
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"All right." Haoran took a sip of the juice and seriously filled in the answers to all the test questions Emma had given him. He changed positions from working on the desk to standing up and pacing while thinking. Later, he stretched his back and close his eyes for five minutes, then went back to working on his desk. He looked super serious.

Emma herself walked around the s.p.a.cious room to observe various potted plants in several corners. When she saw the door to the balcony opened, with great interest, the girl walked there. She stroked the cypress plants outside lovingly, then stood on the edge of the balcony staring at the beautiful scenery of the garden below. This ma.s.sive villa had a gorgeous garden and was clearly cared for by a professional gardener.

"I"m done," said Haoran half an hour later. Emma was stunned and looked at the young man who held up his papers with a smirk.

That was fast, Emma thought. She walked over to Haoran and checked his answers quickly. The question she gave Haoran earlier was basic questions, only to find out his level of understanding about the four subjects earlier.

"Hmm ... the answers are all correct ..." Emma raised her face from the paper in her hand and looked at Haoran with a puzzled look. "I can"t believe you"ve flunked your grades. How come?"

Haoran shrugged.

"It"s easy. Every time I would just leave the answer sheets empty. They have no choice but to let me fail."

Emma looked at the young man with a look of disbelief.

"You ... deliberately did that? Why?" Instantly she felt that her coming here to teach was all in vain.

"I don"t want to go to school. I just go to school every day because I"m forced. You know, if a child doesn"t attend school, then his parents will be punished by the government. So I"m forced to go to school," Haoran replied.

Emma shook her head. "I don"t understand ... Why did you give me tutoring work if later you would only fail your own exam? You"re wasting my time ..."

"You don"t need to worry. I will definitely be a responsible student this time. I won"t intentionally fail my exam anymore." Haoran smiled sweetly. "My father will thank you for giving his son the motivation to study."

Emma could only stare at Haoran with a confused look. She had guessed that the young man was actually not stupid. There must be a reason why he intentionally failed his grades and was placed in cla.s.s F.

"Hmm .. okay. I believe in you." Emma reviewed Haoran"s answers in the questions she gave and concluded that the young man was actually smart. "You don"t seem to really need a tutor."

Haoran shrugged. "Me? I don"t. But my four friends in cla.s.s F are stupid for real. They are willing to pay you to give them tutoring after school if I can confirm to them that you are a good teacher."

"Oh ..." Emma was stunned. Apparently, Haoran didn"t lie in his SMS. "I see. What are their names?"

"I"ll tell you, once you tell me the truth about ... why do you have to go to Paris."

Haoran looked at Emma attentively. Seeing his sincere concern, the girl pondered for a moment. From the first time she Haoran, the young man always treated her well. He seemed to only try to help. Haoran was the first person Emma liked as a friend.

Finally, she nodded. She had no other choice, after all.

She took a seat next to Haoran and spoke in a solemn tone.

"I want to look for my parents" whereabouts."

The young man was stunned to hear Emma"s words. He had guessed that there was something behind Emma"s determination to go to Paris. Still, he did not expect she wanted to find her parents.

"You ... don"t have parents?" asked the young man carefully. "Are you... alright?"

Emma looked down. She had kept her grief for so long without being able to share it with others. Mabel had made her isolated and had no friends for eleven years. Never once did anyone ask her about how she was in such a caring tone like Haoran did now.

Involuntarily, two drops of tears flowed down from her topaz eyes.

"I ... was left in front of the orphanage when I was almost four years old," Emma said softly. "I don"t know why my parents did it ... But at that time, they looked devastated."

Haoran was very moved to see Emma unable to hold back her tears. At that moment, he immediately understood that Emma was venting the sadness she had held inside for a long time.

"Oh .. please forgive me for being insensitive. I didn"t mean to make you sad ..." Haoran touched Emma"s hand and patted it softly. "You don"t need to tell me anything. I understand."

He actually wanted to know more about Emma"s parents, but he didn"t want to make the girl sad. Emma"s tears just now made him very surprised. He did not expect that such a tough and beautiful girl who always looked indifferent turned out to carry such a heavy burden.

Never judge a book by its cover, Haoran thought. He waited until Emma calmed down and then handed her a piece of paper with four names on it.

"These are the names of the four students from cla.s.s 2F who need your tutoring, and they are willing to pay you good money. You can teach them here together in a study group, if you want. I think it is more practical that way. So they can also have peers to study together, and you can save time."

Emma looked at Haoran gratefully. She did not know how she could be so lucky and befriend such a nice young man.

"David Wijaya, Tien Nguyen, Eric Velasquez, and Alex Chu."

"All boys?" asked Emma.

"Why? You"re not a s.e.xist, are you? Are you discriminating against us based on gender?" Haoran asked back. "They are my boys. If I want to switch cla.s.s, then they also have to come. I plan to move to cla.s.s A in the next school term."

"What...?" Emma didn"t understand what Haoran meant. "Why?"

"I"m starting to feel bored in cla.s.s F. I intentionally failed my exam two years in a row because I wanted to embarra.s.s my father. Now I think he"s already embarra.s.sed enough. I want to move to cla.s.s A to be in the same cla.s.s with you ... hehe ..."

Emma just rolled her eyes at Haoran"s words. She did not know what Haoran"s true abilities were like. He was actually not stupid ... but was his intelligence enough to move to cla.s.s A?

At the end of each semester, all students on each level will be ranked in school based on their respective test scores. The top 30 students will enter cla.s.s A, the next 30 students will enter cla.s.s B, and so on.

Because Haoran and his friends were ranked between 150 to 180, so to be able to move to cla.s.s A, they had to beat the exam scores of 150 students above them.

Ugh ... All of a sudden, Emma felt that she would have to work harder than she expected to make that 2,000 dollars.